What have I been playing? Well, there’s this, for one:

I’m going to continue waiting for Divinity Original Sin to go on sale -- the original, which I slept on through several sales and it’s been full price now for WEEKS and it’s DRIVING ME MAD SOMEONE HELP -- and maybe continue playing Mass Effect Andromeda? I finished the first planet but I honestly haven’t had any real…

Boy do I have a fishing story for all of you.

I really want to get Street Fighter 30th Anniversary collection, but I can’t really justify the purchase at the moment. Especially because I’m still so busy with SFV: Arcade Edition, don’t even have all of the characters bought yet!

For some reason in college I watched a lot of Batman content while on acid. There was a pretty deep dive conversation about Batman 89 in regards to all of the Joker branded stuff. Who came up with the Joker logo? Some down on his luck graphic design student end up interning with the Joker gang? Did they just go to the…

I should be finishing up Mass Effect 3 this weekend. It’s been a good run and I’m going to miss the mix of action and story-telling. One thing I won’t miss, though, are the missions that stay on your to-do list even after you’ve gone past the point where you can complete them. So annoying to have the constant…

Matt’s comments about Ikaruga on the Switch echo a thought I’ve been having about the Switch myself: the format of the console really does seem to elevate good games even beyond their own design. I’ve never had games integrated into my life as seamlessly as the games I play on the Switch. The adaptability between…

Getting Detroit later today, fingers crossed it’s more Heavy Rain than Beyond. Or more Heavy Rain than Indigo Prophecy.

Interesting that online is a problem with 30th Anniversary Collection, as Digital Eclipse did Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix and Marvel v. Capcom 2 which I thought had good online modes, and should be the same system.

I published an article on the Mega Man series this week, so I picked up the Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 to celebrate. Consequently, I finished Mega Man 8 for the first time last night. That final boss is a crazy difficulty spike!! Otherwise I quite liked it - cool powers, lovely animation. Really makes you wish…

I suspect this weekend will involve some of Mario Tennis Aces for the demo weekend, akin to how I spent several hours with Overwatch last week, chased by The Witcher 3 as I continue to wade through the muck of Velen.

Knockout League: Onto the final three Grudge Match battles, at least one of which is gonna take me awhile. Currently working on the Iron Maiden, and it’s a fight that’s interestingly different from the others. Those were more about staying upright, and hers is more about beating the clock. Her body hook opening looks…

This week, another game entered the ever-growing list of Games That Doc Has Purchased Multiple Times, But Never Actually Finished. So, after buying the original CD-ROM version, an iPad version and a GOG copy, I decided to sit down and give Baldur’s Gate 2: Enhanced Edition a go.

I actually was a 10 year old boy when this came out and holy fuck I hated it.

I’ll be playing Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. It’s a GOTY contender for me, right up there with God of War and Monster Hunter World. They’ve basically made an Elder Scrolls game that plays like Baldur’s Gate, a wide-open game world filled with quests, monsters, and treasure. I have no idea how far into the main…

RE7 is waiting for me to pick up from the library, so I’ll be checking that out. I’ll see how far I can get playing it for 2 hours from 10 to midnight on Saturday night.

So, I’ve spent the last couple of gaming threads looking forwards to having the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, together with my Steam pre-order bonus of Ultra Street Fighter IV. Those both arrived on Tuesday, so naturally I’ve played maybe 20 minutes of the original Street Fighter. I’d forgotten that the…

I’ve been playing Yoku’s Island Express, and man, this game is charming as heck. I didn’t think stapling pinball onto a Metroidvania could work, but man, it works beautifully.

So this week has been equally divided by Fortnite and Overwatch. From playing exclusively single player games, I’ve grown to like (and in the case of Fortnite reeeealllly get into) multi-player games over the past few years. Battlefield 1 was great until I grew tired of it after a month. Overwatch definitely has the…

Been playing a bit of Hyrule Warriors. I don’t have a Switch so I’m still on the Wii U version, which doesn’t have the quality of life improvements of the Switch release, but it’s still damn fun. I managed to beat the Legends campaign, I’ve gotten some DLC (including Linkle, who is really fun to play) and am working…